Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Nova Sagittarius PNV J17452791-2305213

On April 21st Stanislav Korotkiy and Kirill Sokolovsky from Russia discovered magnitude +9 Nova in the constellation Sagittarius. As reported in S&T here are their discovery images.

Here's its photo taken on April 30th, when its brightness fell down to ~12m.

 




This nova was also detected from STEREO spacecraft 


Here are two photos taken on May 1 and May 21 2012 (click on image to zoom in)